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Football: Doug Socha, former Oxbridge Academy and American Heritage coach, named Keiser University’s first head football coach

After building one football program on Military Trail in West Palm Beach, Doug Socha has the task of building another.

The former Oxbridge Academy and American Heritage head coach will be Keiser University’s first football coach, the school confirmed Tuesday.

Former Oxbridge Academy head coach Doug Socha (right) will be Keiser University’s first football coach. (Post file photo)

Socha is tasked with building the Seahawks, a future NAIA program, from the ground up. The school announced it would start a football program in October, and the team is scheduled to begin playing in 2018 in an on-campus stadium. Keiser is slated to play in the The Sun Conference, along with the rest of Keiser’s teams.

Socha could not be reached for comment Tuesday morning, but a school spokesperson said Socha will hold a press conference Wednesday.

Socha spent the last season as an assistant with the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, but his departure from his previous two coaching positions were shrouded in controversy. Socha was the first coach at Oxbridge and led the team to a pair of independent conference titles and a district championship, but he was let go from Oxbridge, along with former school CEO Robert Parsons and athletic director Craig Sponsky, following a Palm Beach Post investigation of the school. Oxbridge would later have to forfeit its wins from the 2014-15 and 2015-16 athletic seasons.